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The Farmers' AUiance in Texas, 1875-1900 357
State Grange occasioned by the political action of the Alliance,"
in an effort to keep down a new party' directed Deputy James
Armour to attend the convention and if possible maneuver
it into the Grange,"7 while deputies James L. Ray and George
White on their peregrinations should appeal to the sensibilities
of Alliancemen to bring pressure on their leaders." Before it
could meet, President Dunlap obtained a meeting of officers
of both wings and, after the secessionists had promised to
withhold their charter until a special State Alliance meeting
could be held in January, he, with the leading officials of the
rump Alliance, resigned. His mantle then fell upon Dr. C. W.
Macune, chairman of the executive committee.72 At the State
Democratic Convention in Galveston, August 10-13, Alliance-
men, Grangers with Alliance tendencies such as George Pendle-
ton (lieutenant-governor in 1890-92), Knights of Labor, and
Prohibitionists possessed sufficient strength to make an im-
pression on the platform, especially on the fifth plank pertaining
to public land, and to send the Democrats home worried. In
two minority reports the Bourbon Democrats condemned this
plank and secret societies also, and appealed to "all true Dem-
ocrats" to withdraw support from them.73 The Bourbons, op-
posed really to the Alliance business program and its socialist
tendencies, according to Macune, pursued a policy of "dollar
diplomacy" that finally led to committing the party against Al-
liancemen and drove many "true Democrats" into the Alliance
and later into an independent People's Party.7' Though Rose
complained that Texas was "flooded by organizations"75 - the
Alliance, Grange, Agricultural Wheel, Knights of Labor, Pro-
hibitionists, Greenbackers, Union Laborites, etc. --the Al-
liance "demands" presented a rallying point for all non-conform-
ists, and the gathering wave gained such momentum in the
fall of 188676 that it made converts of Democrats, took over
68J. S. Rogers to Rose, August 24, 1886, in Rose Papers.
69Rose to Richard Coke, December 28, 1886, in Rose Letter Book.
70Rose to James Armour, October 25, 1886, in ibid.
"nRose to Ray, and Rose to White, October 25, 1886, in ibid.
72Macune, Farmers' Alliance; Macune, "Proceedings of the National
Farmers' Alliance and Cobperative Union," December 3, 1889, in Dun-
ning (ed.), Farmers' Alliance, 105-109.
73Winkler (ed.), Platforms, 237-242.
"4Macune, Farmers' Alliance; Martin, The People's Party in Texas,
39-43.
"Rose to O. H. Kelley, September 2, 1886, in Rose Letter Book.
76Rose to B. A. Swinney, December 21, 1886, in ibid.
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